Regulatory News:

The Vétoquinol Group (Paris:VETO) announces the appointment of Jacques du Puy as Managing Director.

Jacques du Puy, 53, started off his career in 1982 in the Rhône-Poulenc plant health division that subsequently became Aventis. While at Rhône-Poulenc he worked for 8 years in Asia as head of the Indian and then the Japanese subsidiary. In 2002 he joined Bayer CropScience, where from 2004 he was Business Operations Director for Europe, Africa and the Middle East as well as a member of the Global Executive Committee of this major division of Bayer.

Jacques du Puy qualified as an agricultural engineer at the Paris Institut National Agronomique (INA) and has a DESS (diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées) diploma in Business Administration from the Paris Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE).

Jacques du Puy is based in Lure.

"We are delighted to have Jacques du Puy joining and strenghthening the Vétoquinol executive leadership team", Group CEO Matthieu Frechin said. "With his agricultural background, he has a wealth of experience in a sector that has much in common with the animal health sector."

About Vétoquinol

Vétoquinol is an independent veterinary pharmaceutical laboratory serving both the companion and production animal markets. This family-owned group, dedicated exclusively to animal health, is the 10th largest animal healthcare laboratory in the world. More than 80% of its revenues are generated outside France.

Vétoquinol's business includes research and development, production and marketing of medicinal and non-medicinal products. Vétoquinol has positioned itself in the curative sector and has developed expertise in three therapeutic fields: anti-infectives, pain/inflammation and cardiology/nephrology.

The Group currently distributes its products in more than one hundred countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia/Pacific, with subsidiaries in 24 countries and a network of 140 distribution partners. The company has more than 1,700 employees worldwide.

For more information: www.vetoquinol.com.

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